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Career

· Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind2025–
· Senior Director, Research, Google DeepMind2024–2025
· Senior Director, Research, Google2022–2024
· Principal Scientist Director, Google2019–2022
· Director, Research, Snap Inc.2017–2019
· Vice President And Fellow, Adobe2005–2017
· Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research1999–2005
· Professor, University of Washington1992–
· Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University1991–1992
· Computer Graphics Researcher, Pixar Animation Studios1987–1987
· Computer Graphics Consultant, Sogitec Audiovisuel1986–1986
· Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Stanford University1986–1991
· Research Assistant And Teaching Fellow, Stanford University1986–1988
· Computer Graphics Researcher, Lucasfilm1983–1985
· Undergraduate Research And Teaching Assistant, Brown University1981–1983
· Sc.B., Computer Science, Brown University1979–1983

Publications (148)

Image Analogies
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 2001
1,914
cited
A Bayesian approach to digital matting
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2001 · 2001
1,020
cited
Interactive Digital Photomontage
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2004
1,000
cited
Fast multiresolution image querying
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1995
845
cited
Wavelets for computer graphics: theory and applications
1996
821
cited
Video textures
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 2000
657
cited
Computer-generated pen-and-ink illustration
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1994
611
cited
Synthesizing realistic facial expressions from photographs
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1998
598
cited
Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1987
587
cited
Computer-generated watercolor
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1997
568
cited
Surface light fields for 3D photography
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 2000
558
cited
Wavelets for computer graphics: a primer.1
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 1995
452
cited
Orientable textures for image-based pen-and-ink illustration
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1997
421
cited
The virtual cinematographer: a paradigm for automatic real-time camera control and directing
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1996
414
cited
Gaze-based interaction for semi-automatic photo cropping
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2006
401
cited
Video matting of complex scenes
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 2002
381
cited
Interactive Pen-and-Ink Illustration
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1994
369
cited
Multiresolution curves
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1994
339
cited
Spatio-angular resolution tradeoffs in integral photography
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering · 2006
322
cited
Hierarchical image caching for accelerated walkthroughs of complex environments
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques · 1996
314
cited
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